The Year in Film: Guardian critics on 2010's best!

Note: because this was generally such a crap year, a "best" list seemed too much of a stretch. Ergo this is a Top 20 list, in no particular order, of films I enjoyed most one way or the other (The Killer Inside Me, Everyone Else, and I Spit on Your Grave definitely representing the other). No doubt The King's Speech, The Social Network, and several other currently awards-baiting titles have finer qualities than some here, but they're not what I'd gladly watch again right now.

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks teaches Film History at the Academy of Art University and curates-hosts the film series "Midnites for Maniacs," which emphasizes dismissed, underrated and overlooked films in a neo-sincere way.